White Ravens’99/Portugal/79237
Mota, António (text) 
 Ana Lúcia (illus.)
 O agosto que nunca esquecei
 (The August that I have never forgotten)
 Porto: Edinter, 1998. 171pp
 (Edinter jovem ; 17)
 ISBN 972-43-0312-8
 Rural life - Village - Rural exodus - Home
 In hindsight, from the perspective of the first-person narrator, this book tells of the experiences of eleven-
 year old David in 1966 in his home village in northern Portugal. It is a summer full of surprises and major
 changes, both in the family and in the village, and ends with David leaving his home to earn his living in the
 big city of Porto. In his realistic but at the same time reticent, reserved style the author describes
 traditional rural life and its gradual but unstoppable decay. There is a lightly melancholic tone in the
 narrative yet it is free of any bitterness and nostalgic overtones. (11+)

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